[strongSwan] Strongswan[5.4.0] unix:///var/run/charon.vici

[Andreas Steffen]

Hi Rajeev,

can you check in the charon log if the vici plugin has been loaded?
And do you see the charon daemon running in the process status
(ps aux | grep charon)?

Regards

Andreas

On 05/11/2016 04:04 AM, rajeev nohria wrote:
> Thanks Andreas,
> 
> I ran the charon and also copied the charon script file to /etc/init.d. 
> Now when I run sudo swanctl --load-conn, I still get the same issue.
> connecting to 'unix:///var/run/charon.vici' failed: No such file or
> directory
> Error: connecting to 'default' URI failed: No such file or directory
> strongSwan 5.4.0 swanctl
> usage:
>   swanctl --load-conns [--raw|--pretty]
>            --help            (-h)  show usage information
>            --raw             (-r)  dump raw response message
>            --pretty          (-P)  dump raw response message in pretty print
>            --debug           (-v)  set debug level, default: 1
>            --options         (-+)  read command line options from file
>            --uri             (-u)  service URI to connect to
> 
> 
> Am I missing any other step?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rajeev
> 
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Andreas Steffen
> <andreas.steffen at strongswan.org <mailto:andreas.steffen at strongswan.org>>
> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Rajeev,
> 
>     is the charon daemon running? If not, either start charon manually:
> 
>       sudo /usr/local/libexec/ipsec/charon &
> 
>     or if your Linux distribution still uses upstart, copy the
>     following script to /etc/init.d/
> 
> 
>     https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/repository/revisions/master/entry/testing/hosts/default/etc/init.d/charon
> 
>     and start the charon daemon in the appropriate runlevels.
> 
>     If your Linux distribution uses systemd instead, compile and
>     install strongSwan with
> 
>        ./config --enable-systemd
> 
>     and enable and start the strongswan-swanctl service.
> 
>     BTW - in order to use the vici socket you must be root. Thus
> 
>       sudo swanctl --load-conn
> 
>     Best regards
> 
>     Andreas
> 
> 
>     On 09.05.2016 16:34, rajeev nohria wrote:
> 
>         I am new user of Strongswan and running 5.4.0. After creating
>         certificates and configuring two Ubuntu m/c with Strongswan
>         5.4.0. I try
>         to create connection as following and get error. Please advise,
>         how to
>         resolve following issue?
> 
>         $swanctl --load-conn
>         connecting to 'unix:///var/run/charon.vici' failed: No such file or
>         directory
>         Error: connecting to 'default' URI failed: No such file or directory
>         strongSwan 5.4.0 swanctl
>         usage:
> 
> 
>         Thanks,
>         Rajeev
> 
> 
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Andreas Steffen                         andreas.steffen at strongswan.org
strongSwan - the Open Source VPN Solution!          www.strongswan.org
Institute for Internet Technologies and Applications
University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil
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